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Professor Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic develops a bioreactor system that uses stem cells to grow new bones in the anatomical shape of the original. She goes on to become the first woman at Columbia to be elected to the National Academy of Engineering and, in 2014, is elected to the Institute of Medicine (IOM) of the National Academies.
Professor Peter Belhumeur leads the team that creates the award-winning software application Leafsnap, the first electronic field guide with visual recognition, downloaded more than a million times to explore flora of New York City and Washington, D.C. He later develops Birdsnap, an electronic field guide to birds.
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